The Improv at Ontario Mills (Ontario, CA)
The Ontario Improv welcomes Gary Owen, the only white comedian to ever host BET's Comic View. Many people recognize Gary as the dancing "Mr. Broccoli" in the movie Daddy Day Care with Eddie Murphy, or as the goofy redneck deputy in the movie Held Up with Jamie Foxx.
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Great Event...very punctual with their timing from beginning to end. Good service. Not a large crowd for the time held but definitely would go again.
All three comics were great! Looking forward to attending more shows. The food needs inprovement hahahaha
Very Funny show, catch him next time.
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Gary was hilarious, a must see when he is in your town!
"Brother's got the Westside, trailer park's got Doublewides!!" Gary Owen is the only white guy to ever host B.E.T.'s "Comicview." Many people recognize Gary as the dancing "Mr. Broccoli" in the blockbuster movie "Daddy Day Care" with Eddie Murphy. Or as the goofy redneck deputy in the movie "Held Up" with Jamie Foxx.
Owen, was always the "class clown" when he was growing up in Cincinnati, Ohio. After high school, he got serious and enlisted in the Navy. He was chosen for the prestigious Presidential Honor Guard. Spinning rifles and carrying flags for George Bush and Bill Clinton turned out to be the wrong job for a funny guy. "I was always smiling," he remembers. "So I got yelled at for smiling all the time."
After leaving his ceremonial position, Owen became a military police officer at the Naval Installations on Coronado Island in San Diego. But he was too much of a pushover to be a cop. He made only two arrests in three years. "I was the worst, " he admits. During that time, though, he embarked on his true calling - stand-up comedy. One night while hanging with his service buddies, Owen worked up the nerve to go at a nightclub. After only a year of doing stand-up, he was named "Funniest Serviceman in America."
Off the military base, it was the Black nightclubs that gave him his real breaks: "The only place I could get on stage regularly," he recalls, "was in the so-called 'hood' in San Diego. Then I thought, "Why don't I make fun of black and whites? We're both sitting here. That's when I started addressing the different black and white issues - interracial dating and social issues. I like to deal with issues white guys aren't supposed to talk about."
Owen never pretended to be one of the homeboys. Basically, I would ask question, like, 'I don't know what a "boo" (a term of affection) is. Do I have this right? Am I thinking right? And they'd laugh because I was so honest about it.'
San Diego's African-American community embraced him, and he went onto win the "Funniest Black Comedian in San Diego" contest. That led to his first big gig at Los Angeles' Comedy Store. Then in July of '97 he auditioned for BET's "Comic View. "Two appearances on the multi-cultural comedy showcase won him his own one-hour "Grandstand" show. At the end of the season he was selected from the year's four "Grandstanders" to be the host. Owen was excited because he'd always been a huge "Comic View" fan.
Gary has numerous appearances on Comedy Central, as well as hosting MUN2's hit comedy show "Loco Comedy Jam." Not one to sit and wait for things to happen, Gary recently released his first comedy CD " Live from Tampa" and his first comedy DVD "Breakin Out The Park." Gary can currently be seen in the movie "Little Man." One things for sure, when people see Gary live on stage, they keep coming back over and over again.
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